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Will President Obama's remarks have as much sway over The Supreme Court as the $700,000.00 Mrs Justice Thomas received from the Heritage Foundation that crafted the health care mandate? Only time will tell. What we do know in America, no congressional act is without judicial review, and no judicial decision is without political review. Obamacare will join Bush v Gore as the decision that could throw out precedent to select a precedent.

But I still believe the law will be upheld. As I've stated before this latest round of argument

I believe ObamaCare will be upheld 6-3 and that a 5-4 decision tossing precedent for personal responsibility mandates dating back to the Founders would cement this Court's position as the partisans who installed a president in Bush v Gore, insisted in Citizens United that corporations are people, and took away health care for people with pre-existing medical conditions. That in turn would yield a political response - exactly what the Court knew when it decided to hear the case in the throes of a national election that could turn on the winners' ability to appoint more Scalias or Sotomayors.

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